Georg Groddeck’s influence on Sandor Ferenczi was critically important to the development of psychoanalysis, and includes influencing Ferenczi’s recognition of the significance of the mother which led to the development of object relations theory, his championing the experience of the child and the importance of early trauma, and his recognition of the importance of the body-mind relationship. ...

Douglas G. Altman Editors of medical journals accept that published research should be open to comment and correction in published correspondence ([1]; Box 1). “Post-publication peer review” enables comments on, clarifi cations of, and corrections to published research. All journals should have a correspondence page for this purpose. I previously criticised the effective “statute of limitations...

The most famous members of the Mozart family were musicians - not physicians. In spite of that, the family correspondence of the Mozarts contains much noteworthy information on 18th century medicine. It comes mainly from Leopold, the famous composer's father, which is why the vast majority of the medical data presented in the letters cannot be found in the popular editions of the correspondence...

Thomas Birch (1705-66), Secretary of the Royal Society from 1752 to 1765, and Philip Yorke, second Earl of Hardwicke (1720-90), wrote a 'Weekly Letter' from 1741 to 1766, an unpublished correspondence of 680 letters now housed in the British Library (Additional Mss 35396-400). The article examines the dimensions and purposes of this correspondence, an important conduit of information for the in...

Douglas G. Altman Editors of medical journals accept that published research should be open to comment and correction in published correspondence ([1]; Box 1). “Post-publication peer review” enables comments on, clarifi cations of, and corrections to published research. All journals should have a correspondence page for this purpose. I previously criticised the effective “statute of limitations...

Douglas G. Altman Editors of medical journals accept that published research should be open to comment and correction in published correspondence ([1]; Box 1). “Post-publication peer review” enables comments on, clarifi cations of, and corrections to published research. All journals should have a correspondence page for this purpose. I previously criticised the effective “statute of limitations...

OBJECTIVES Accident and emergency departments see large numbers of patients, and computerised administration systems are a useful tool for producing discharge communication. The purpose of this study was to determine the quality of such correspondence. METHODS Retrospective review of 300 discharge letters and case notes. RESULTS 29% of all computer generated discharge information was incomp...

My dear Foster I have not received your prospectus of an Authors' company so I can't say yea or nay. Won't there be time to talk over it on Thursday. Mr Faunthorpe, 1 the Principal of Whitelands College has sent in a furious attack on us for the results of the examinations of his lambs – I think it will be necessary to direct their performances in detail. If you could come here on Thursday even...

My dear Foster You are very welcome to the illustrations so far as I am concerned. Cambridge could not have been beastlier than Eastbourne for the last fortnight but I have been fairly well since I got over the effects of the Premier's dinner. 1 What ever the papers may say I am not at H.M.'s command. I had meant to attend the soirée on Wednesday by way of paying my respects to the Society but ...